Appalachian History

The whacks of a Shillelagh

The shillelagh [siúil éille is a Gaelic word meaning “oak club”] is a wooden cudgel named for Shillelagh Forest in County Wicklow, Ireland.

All the sounds, sights & smells you picked up along the way, piece by piece, some you wanted to save, some you’d just as soon forget.

WV Swiss settlers combined the Catholic celebration of Lent with the Protestant Winterfest of Zurich, when Old Man Winter is burned in effigy.

First stop for Southern Highland Handicraft Guild’s traveling exhibition will be at the American County Life Assn. conference at Blacksburg.

Hundreds of thousands of copies of shaped-note collections of religious songs were put into circulation between 1800 and the end of the Civil War.